On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Xavier<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Cedric Staniewski<[email protected]> wrote: >> Xavier wrote: >>> >>> But should we remove the symlink manually then? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pacman-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev >> >> I'm not sure. Always thought they are there on purpose (mostly used >> bsdtar), even though they are usually not needful. >> >> The current behaviors are: >> bsdtar keeps symlinks >> gunzip removes symlinks >> bunzip2 removes symlinks >> xz keeps symlinks > > Thank you, thats very informative :) > So we were already inconsistent before. > What about always keeping symlinks, ie adding -k to gunzip and bunzip2 as > well?
We should always keep, this was probably an oversight when adding direct decompression of non-tar formats. That way someone can very easily see what source was copied in that directory both before and after decompression. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
